Justice Committee on June 15th, 2026

[Rhéal Fortin, Bloc, Rivière-du-Nord, QC]

I have a point of order, Madam Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

Monsieur Fortin, go ahead on your point of order.

[Larry Brock, Conservative, Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON]

There's no translation.

[Rhéal Fortin, Bloc, Rivière-du-Nord, QC]

In terms of the document that Mr. Brock is reading—

[A voice]

There's no interpretation.

[Rhéal Fortin, Bloc, Rivière-du-Nord, QC]

The point I want to raise, Madam Chair, is that I am one of the vice-chairs of this committee. I did not participate in these discussions, nor was I invited to do so. If any discussions or agreements between one of the two vice-chairs and the parliamentary secretary are made public, it is important that I be notified and that I be given the opportunity to review those documents.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

Thank you, Monsieur Fortin.

My understanding is that Ms. Lattanzio did just read out the messages that were exchanged between the two—

[Larry Brock, Conservative, Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON]

I have a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

I would really like to move on to your—

[Larry Brock, Conservative, Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON]

I have a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

Go ahead, sir.

[Larry Brock, Conservative, Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON]

I was in the middle of reading out every text exchange, and then I was hit with several points of order. I disagree with your characterization of the parliamentary secretary's summary of the text messages. For the benefit of Mr. Fortin, I will slow it down so that he can hear it in his native tongue, in French. I want the full exchange between myself and the parliamentary secretary.

Given the fact that I asked for unanimous consent to accommodate our Bloc colleague and was refused by the government, I am prepared to repeat the text exchanges between myself and the parliamentary secretary very slowly so that Mr. Fortin is not prejudiced.

[Marilyn Gladu, Liberal, Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, ON]

I have a point of order.

Chair, this back and forth is a complete waste of the committee's time. If the Conservatives want to continue to filibuster, let them do that, but I think it's not appropriate for people to be sharing texts and translating people's personal texts. I don't give my consent to that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

Mr. Brock, you have the floor. Please go ahead.

[Larry Brock, Conservative, Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON]

Thank you.

[Doly Begum, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

I have a point of order.

I'm confused as to what MP Brock's point is here. What started off with a very beautiful recognition of health care workers...and congratulations to your wife on 30 years of service, caring for so many loved ones across your community.

I just want to take a moment to say we are so proud of our health care workers, nurses, doctors, PSWs and every single person who supports and takes care of our loved ones in their most vulnerable time, in their worst situations. It is so important that we recognize that. I was really impressed when Mr. Brock started—

[Andrew Lawton, Conservative, Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, ON]

I have a point of order.

[Doly Begum, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

—to talk about that because it recognized the importance of the work we're doing. I think it's really important that we focus on that. Right now, we're debating Bill C-238, which also focuses on something equally important but a little different: restitution.

[An hon. member]

Point of order.

[Doly Begum, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

We have witnesses here and—

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

If you guys want leverage on your points of order, please give leverage to all of your colleagues.

[Doly Begum, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

I'll just take 30 seconds, Chair—

[An hon. member]

Point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Iqra Khalid]

I would like to see what point she's going to make.

Calm down, guys. Let's go.

[Doly Begum, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

I just wanted to say that we are parliamentarians here. We should not be reading out text messages that we have sent to each other. If the vice-chairs want to understand a conversation with the parliamentary secretary, they should do that off-line. As someone who is here to serve her community, I do not find that appropriate.

Thank you very much.